Bergen Public LibraryBergen Public Library, Norway, has placed images on Flickr commons to increase public access to their digital collections. All digital files have been reproduced by Bergen Public Library unless otherwise noted. The documents are free to use, if no other exception is expressed. All images that are uploaded to Bergen Public Library's digital collections are marked with the "no known copyright restrictions". This marking indicates that the images are in "the public domain" because the copyright has expired as to Norwegian copyright law, and/or the copyright belongs to the library and has been wavered.
The library has to the best of its ability selected these images for release and any comments on these, or future images are most welcome. At the core of this collection is the composer Edvard Grieg and the violin virtuoso Ole Bull's picture collection.Bergen Public LibraryPublic DomainjpgNorweigianEnglishCollection<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergen_public_library/sets/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergen_public_library/sets/</a>Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online CatalogHundreds of images in dozens of collections. Different rights statements per collection.Library of CongressMixedEnglishCollection<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/pictures</a>Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Image LibraryThe Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has been devoted to collecting works of art that span both history and geography, in addition to representing Los Angeles's uniquely diverse population. Today LACMA is the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection that includes over 120,000 objects dating from antiquity to the present, encompassing the geographic world and nearly the entire history of art. Among the museum’s strengths are its holdings of Asian art, Latin American art, ranging from pre-Columbian masterpieces to works by leading modern and contemporary artists; and Islamic art, of which LACMA hosts one of the most significant collections in the world.
In the collection it is possible to search using Public Domain only.Los Angeles County Museum of ArtMixedEnglishCollection<a href="http://collections.lacma.org/" target="_blank">http://collections.lacma.org/</a>Getty's Open Content ProgramA wonderful collection of more than 87000 images released under an open license.GettyPublic DomainEnglishCollection<a href="http://search.getty.edu/gateway/search?q=&amp;cat=highlight&amp;f=%22Open+Content+Images%22&amp;rows=10&amp;srt=a&amp;dir=s&amp;pg=1" target="_blank">http://search.getty.edu/gateway/search?q=&amp;cat=highlight&amp;f=%22Open+Content+Images%22&amp;rows=10&amp;srt=a&amp;dir=s&amp;pg=1</a>Library of Congress Fine Prints: Japanese, pre-1915Wonderful pictures by the Japanese masters, including many classics. Public DomainLibrary of CongressPublic DomainJapaneseCollection<a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/jpd/" target="_blank">http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/jpd/</a>Zentralbibliothek SolothurnAround 1200 historic prints from the Zentralbibliothek Solothurn collection at Wikimedia Commons. A diversity of facets of Solothurn history can be found in them, from documentation of long-vanished buildings to the advent of modern industry and railways. It is also a showcase of various artistic styles and techniques in art printing, from woodcuts to steel engravings. All files in the Commons category are in the public domain and therefore can be used freely. More files will be added to the repository in the future. Zentralbibliothek SolothurnPublic DomainGermanCollection<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_contributed_by_Zentralbibliothek_Solothurn</a>UK National ArchivesUK National Archives’ ongoing efforts – in partnership with Wikimedia Commons – to bring their vast collection of UK Government artefacts to a wider audience. UK National ArchivesMixedEnglishCollection<a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/</a>DAC Open Access ImagesArt and Design: History, Practice and TheoryPublication-quality images of collection objects from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, with no known copyright restrictions. Approximately 4,590 images, so far chiefly of Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and British prints, with more to come from the DAC collection of 25,000 works of art on paper. Registration not required. DAC Open Access Images have no known copyright restrictions, and <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">CC0</a> metadata is downloadable as <a href="http://www.lido-schema.org/">LIDO</a> from object pages. Open access policy is at <a href="http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess" target="_blank">http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess</a>.Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University Davison Art Center, Wesleyan UniversityPublic DomainTIFF, JPEGEnglishCollection<a href="http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu" target="_blank">http://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu</a> (and click "DAC Open Access Images")The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: as seen in prints and archivesThis web exhibition “The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: as seen in prints and archives” has been produced as a collaboration between the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) and the British Library. Its aim is to bring together the collection of prints of the Sino-Japanese War held by the British Library and documents made public by JACAR to show how the events of the Sino-Japanese War were depicted and recorded by the people of the time.Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR), British LibraryPublic Domain.jpgJapaneseEnglishCollection<a href="http://www.jacar.go.jp/english/jacarbl-fsjwar-e/index.html">http://www.jacar.go.jp/english/jacarbl-fsjwar-e/index.html</a>